nutritive
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Fall is a great time to add a percolating layer of compost as a nutritive mulch on new or existing beds, or even on a lawn.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
Plant and microbial species, in particular, can reveal new medicinal and nutritive knowledge.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
According to Mary Zalla, global president of consumer brands at the consulting firm Landor, the trend fits with consumers’ increasing expectations that foods and beverages be carriers of additional benefits beyond just nutritive ones.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2019
“What is clear is that the energetic value of food and beverages that contain both nutritive and nonnutritive sweeteners is not being accurately communicated to the brain,” Small notes.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 24, 2019
Did he bring home nutritive roots and brew homeopathic teas?
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
